Tellus : (from Latin 'earth') the goddess of the earth in Roman mythology; hence, the earth personified; the planet Earth, the terrestrial globetellurium : (from Tellus) one of the rarer elements, a tin-white shining brittle substance, formerly from its outward characters classed among the metals, but in its chemical properties and relations belonging to the same series as sulphurtelluric : derived from or containing telluriumtelluric : of or belonging to the earth, terrestrial; pertaining to the earth as a planet; also, of or arising from the earth or soil

telos : (from Greek 'end') end, purpose, ultimate object or aimteleology : the doctrine or study of ends or final causes, especially as related to the evidences of design or purpose in nature; also transferred sense of design as exhibited in natural objects or phenomena telomere: the compound structure found at the end of a chromosome in eukaryotes, having only one spindle pole

Telluride, Colorado:
Alas, there is no Telluride in Telluride and never was. Like the rest of America it is fictional. It has now become a year-round resort, comparable to say, Rancho Mirage, used by the likes of the Koch brothers and Barack & Xi Jinping, or ... Disneyland.

The prostitute fell in love with the congressman:

I want to take you away from this life.

Or consider distance: miles, kilometres ... leagues:

All this to love and raptures due.
Must we not pay a debt to pleasures too?

(No conscious fakery here. The Rochester quote comes to me from an episode of 'Inspector Morse', a TV show.)